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William Haskell & Jemima Hubbard, Gloucester, MA 1700s

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Lieutenant and Deacon William Haskell and Jemima Hubbard of Gloucester, Massachusetts are my 7X great grandparents.

William Haskell was born in Gloucester on  1 January 1689/90, the son of Mark Haskell and Elizabeth Giddings. The Haskell and Giddings families are two of my several multiple descents.

Jemima Hubbard was born on 11 November 1684 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, the daughter of Richard Hubbard and Martha Allen. Jemima is unique in my family tree in that she is the only twin (sister Keziah) found anywhere in my direct line. It’s also a bit unusual, but not unique, that Jemima was a bit more than five years older than her husband.

William and Jemima married on 26 April 1712 in Gloucester.

Children (All BMD in Gloucester unless noted):

1. Jemima, born 2 March 1712/13; died 2 March 1736/37; married Thomas Allen, intentions filed 23 November 1732.
2. Job, born 27 April 1716; died c1806, New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine; married Mercy Leavitt, 26 January 1738, Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire
3. Comfort, born 28 May 1717; died 5 September 1809; married Parker Sawyer, 10 November 1742
4. Nathaniel, born 16 January 1718; died 31 July 1808; married Hannah White, 11 November 1740
5. Hubbard, born 3 May 1720; died 9 April 1811; married Anna Millet, 12 November 1740
6. Elizabeth, born 8 November 1723; died 8 December 1723
7. William, born 27 January 1725/26; died 27 April 1806; married Elizabeth Haskell, 6 November 1746
8. George, born 10 February 1728/29; died 19 February 1728/29

William and Jemima had some sorrow in their lives, as they buried infant children George and Elizabeth and lost their eldest daughter, Jemima, on her 24th birthday.

Their son, Job, was among the many Gloucester citizens who chose to make a new home in New Gloucester, Maine. Therefore, they had four children near them in their adult lives – Comfort, Nathaniel, Hubbard and William.

Deacon William Haskell died on 10 December 1766. He was predeceased by wife Jemima, who passed away five years earlier, on 1 June 1761.

William left both a will and a sizable estate of £668. That would be worth close to $20,000 today, but I can’t find a £ converter to figure out pounds sterling.

I was most surprised by one item in the inventory:


Essex County, MA Probate File #12813
Source: American Ancestors

William Haskell owned one enslaved person, a “Negro girl,” no age or name given, valued at £42.13.4. This is the second instance I’ve come across of a New England ancestor owning a slave. The other is Peter Hay of Stoneham, Massachusetts who died in 1790. He also owned one enslaved person, a Negro man, not named.

William was also literate, as evidenced by the inclusion of books in his inventory.

I don’t know if William Haskell was ailing when he wrote his will or if he decided he needed to get it done, as his wife died on 1 June 1761 and he wrote his will just three weeks later, on 23 June 1761. It was not proved until early 1767, as William passed away in December 1766.


Will of William Haskell, 1761
Essex County, MA Probate File #12813
Source: American Ancestors

In the Name of God amen this twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred Sixty and one I William Haskell senor of Glocester in the County of Essex in new England being somthing weak in body but of a sound mind thanks be Given to God for itt: but considering the mortallity of the body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye do make and ordain this my Last Will and testament acknowledging (?) the immortality of the soul Do Recommend my soul into the hands of God that Gave it and my body to the Earth after death to be desently buried att the discresion of my Executors Nothing doubting but att the Generall Resurrection I Shall Recieve itt again by the almighty power of God: and as touching my worldly Estate which itt hat pleased God to bless me with hear in this Life I give and Dispose of as followeth:

Imprimis I Give to my son Job Haskell and his Heirs forty and six pounds Lawfull mony out of my Real Estate to be paid by my son Nathaniall Haskell or his heirs within two years next after my
decease: further my will is that he shall have one sixth part of my personal & movable estate after my debts and funeral charges are paid and Excepting any perticklers that I shall otherwise dispose
of: and he shall have one quarter par of my waring appariel and this together with (?) he has had given? & shall be in full of his part out of my estate.

Item: I Give to my son Hubbard Haskell and his heirs and asigns the one half of a wood Lot of which Joseph Haskell (owns?) the other half Lying near the head of Littel River so called in Glocester
Likewise I give him my son Hubbard and his Heirs thirty six pounds Lawfull mony out of my Real Estate to be paid by my son Nathaniell Haskell or his heirs within three years next after my discease:
further my son Hubbard shall have one sixth part of any personal or movable Estate; after any debts and funeral charges are paid excepting what I have & shall perticklerly dispose of and he is to have one quarter part of my wearing appariell and this together with what I have Given him before is in full of his part & portion out of my Estate

Item: I Give to my son William Haskell and his heirs forty and five pounds Lawfull mony out of my Real Estate to be paid to him by my son Nathaniell Haskell or his heirs within two years next after my discease: Likewise I Give to him my Great bible and my Goald butters and he shall have one sixth part of my personal & movalbe Estat after my debts and funaral charges are paid Excepting what I have or shall pertickerly dispose of and he is to have one quarter part of my waring appariell and this together with what he had had before is & shall be in full of his part or portion of my estate.

Item: i Give to my Daughter Comfort Sawyer and her hers that pat of the house that she did Live in and all that belonged to it that I bought of mr. Joseph Sargent Likewise I Give her and her heirs thirty pounds out of my Real Estate to be paid to her or her heirs by my son Nathaniell Haskell within three years next after my discease Likewise She Shall have one sixth part of my person or movable Estate that I have not (turn over)

pertickerly disposed of after my Debts and funeral Charges are paid further She Shall Have my Silver (?) and this together with all that she has had in my Life time is in full of her part or portion out of my estate

Item I Give to the Heirs of my daughter Jemima Allen disceast Namely my Grandson William Allen and his heirs twenty two pounds Lawfull mony out of my Real Estate and to my Granson Job Allien decest daughter of or heir if she Lives to come of age fifteen pounds Lawfull mony out of my Real Estate and these sums to be paid by my son Nathaniell Haskell within three years next after my discease: Likewise my will is that these my granson William Allien and my grate grand child (of ?) heir shall have one sixth part of my movables or personal Estate after my debts and funerall charges are paid and if Job Alliens heir dies before shee comes of age then the whole
Shall Go to sd William Allien and his heirs: or otherwise to be devided Equaly between them and there several sumes shall be in full of their portion out of my Estate.

Item I Give to my son Nathaniell Haskell and his heirs and asigns all my (Hausings?) and Lands and marsh Lying in Glocester & Ipswich or Else whole Excepting what I have before disposed of and the one half of my Utensils for Husbandry and personal Estate that I have not disposed of before after my debts and funar charges are paid and further he is to have one quarter part of my waring appariell and this to be in full of his part or portion out of my estate.

Item I Give to my three Gransons Named William Viz Job son and Hubbards son and williams son and if ther shall be (?) named for one two pounds apeace Lawful mony to be paid them by my Executers out of my personal Estat itt being for their Names?

Lastly I do by these presents chuse ordain and Constitute my two sons Namly Nathaniell Haskell and William Haskell to be my Executors of this my Last Will and Testiment to Recieve all any Just dues and to pay all any just debts and what Remains is to be Equaly devided to and among my children as I have before ordered itt and to Give me a desent Christian burial after death in witness a (whole?) of and for confirmation of all above written I the said William Haskell have seet to my hand and Seal the day and date above mentioned

William Haskell (Seal)

Signed Sealled published and pronounced in presents of
Thos Tagues (Jaques?)
David Haskell
Stephen Haskell

American Revolution, DAR, Haskell

American Patriots John Haskell and Samuel Tarbox

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Some years ago, I discovered a reference to John Haskell being a qualified ancestor for membership in the National Society Sons of the American Revolution, but he was not identified as such by DAR.

John Haskell was my 5x great grandfather. He was born 7 January 1744/45 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, the second child of Nathaniel Haskell and Hannah White. He married Hannah Parsons on 18 January 1769 in Gloucester. Hannah was born on 29 April 1749, also in Gloucester, the fifth child and first daughter of Isaac Parsons and Hannah Burnham.

However, very soon after John and Hannah Haskell married, they removed to the newly settle town of New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, where their first child, daughter Hannah, was born on 21 October 1769. Their other twelve children were also all born in New Gloucester.

I had to do some digging to discover how John Haskell made it on to the patriot rolls of the SAR. I was given a vague reference to New Gloucester town records so I wrote to the town clerk. I was rewarded with one page of the typed transcript of the original town records from 19 March 1776.

JohnHaskellCivService1776
New Gloucester Town Meeting Records

There was what I needed on the very last line of the page:

Voted that Messrs. John Warran and John Haskell be the tytheing-men.

Janice A. Brown has such a great description of this job on her Cow Hampshire blog post from 7 April 2007 that I can’t do any better:

It was the tithing man’s duty to detain and arrest Sabbath travelers, unless they were going to or from church, or to visit the sick and do charitable deeds. His job was also to keep the boys from playing in the meeting-house, and to wake up any who might fall asleep during meeting.

In some towns, tithing men were provided with staves, which were sticks that had brass upon one end and feathers upon the other. Called “church sticks” and “tithing sticks,” the brass end was used to hit the sleeping men or restless children, and the feathers were used to brush the faces of sleeping women. Another version (kinder) shows a rabbit’s tail on one end and a fox tail on the other.

Tithing men also collected the taxes mandated for the support of the church and the minister of the gospel (thereby the name, from the worth tithe, ” to pay a portion of one’s income, especially to the church.”). They were expected to report on idle or disorderly persons, profane swearers or cursers and Sabbath breakers.

I guess it wasn’t a job for the fainthearted! However, John’s election to town service is what qualified him as an American patriot, but under civil service, not military, which took place during the American Revolution.

Actually, I was quite elated to get this page because this one and only very same page provided me with a second ancestor giving civil service, Samuel Tarbox.

The sentence second from the bottom stated:

Voted that Messrs. Adam Cotton, Barnabas Winslow and Samuel Tarbox be the wardens.

Near the beginning of the minutes for that town meeting, it also noted:

Voted Mr. Samuel Tarbox moderator for said meeting.

Samuel Tarbox was born 23 May 1731 in Gloucester, Essex, MA, the son of Joseph Tarbox and Susannah Stevens. He married Deborah Sayward on 19 June 1755, also in Gloucester. Deborah was born on 10 April 1737, again in Gloucester, the daughter of Joseph Sayward and Sarah Giddings.

Like John and Hannah Haskell, Samuel and Deborah Tarbox are my 5x great grandparents. Also like the Haskells, the Tarbox family moved not many years after their marriage to New Gloucester, Maine. Their first two children were born in Gloucester, but it appears that the remaining seven children in their family were born in New Gloucester from 1762 onwards.

Both John Haskell and Samuel Tarbox are now documented patriots in both the SAR and DAR databases. As you can see, it is a relatively easy task to obtain documentation for non-military service during the American Revolution.

 

 

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Descended Twice from the Same Ancestors – William Haskell & Marie Tybbot

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1. William Haskell and Marie Tybbot have a LOT of descendants, but perhaps not as many as one would think. That’s because descendants intermarried and produced people like me, who are descended from them twice. They are my 9 times great grandparents.

William Haskell’s English origins have been proven. He was born 8 November 1618 in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England. He married Marie (Mary) Tybbot on 6 November 1643 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts and lived out their lives there. I don’t know if there was some type of pestilence epidemic in Gloucester in 1693 or if William and Marie were one of those couples who passed away within a short time of each other, but Marie died in 16 August 1693 and William followed only four days later on 20 August 1693.

I am descended from two of their sons, William and Mark. Here are the lines:

2. William Haskell married Mary Brown
1644-1708                             1649-1715

3. Ebenezer Parsons married Lydia Haskell
1682-1763                                   1681-1734

4. Isaac Parsons married Hannah Burnham
1714-1767                         Abt 1721-aft 1759

Each of those families spent their lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Generation 5, John Haskell married Hannah Parsons, is where the two lines come together. John and Hannah were third cousins. They likely knew their was a distant family relationship because Hannah’s grandmother was a Haskell, although Lydia Haskell Parsons died before her granddaughter was born.

The second line, from Mark Haskell, is:

2. Mark Haskell married Elizabeth Giddings
1658-1691                         1666-1725

3. William Haskell married Jemima Hubbard
1690-1731                              1684-1761

4. Nathaniel Haskell married Hannah White
1719-1808                                   1721-1814

Each of these families also lived out their lives in Gloucester, with the exception of Mark Haskell’s widow who married (1) John Dennison and removed to Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Nathaniel and Hannah were the parents of John Haskell who married Hannah Parsons from my first Haskell line. The descendants continue now as one line:

5. John Haskell married Hannah Parsons
1745-1828                       1749-1834

John and Hannah were the first generation to leave Gloucester and move to New Gloucester, Maine.

6. William Tarbox married Judith Haskell
1779-1860                            1780-1861

William and Judith lived out their lives and raised their family in New Gloucester, Maine.

7. George Rogers Tarbox married Mary Elizabeth Scripture
1818-1895                                             1827-1866

George Tarbox first moved to Lowell and then Newburyport, Massachusetts before marrying Mary Elizabeth in Nashua, New Hampshire. They finally settled in Calais, Washington, Maine.

8. Calvin Segee Adams married Nellie F. Tarbox
1843-1921                                        1856-1927

9. Charles E. Adams married Annie Maude Stuart
1877-1922                                 1874-1940

10. Vernon Tarbox Adams married Hazel Ethel Coleman
1899-1968                                              1901-1995

11. George Michael Sabo married Doris Priscilla Adams
1926-1985                                           1923-2008

12. Linda Anne Sabo, me

I’ll be posting a couple more of my double lines in the future, including my very tangled Lakin line, with several lines of descent. Do you have any triple lines?